Super Junior

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My 2nd favorite Korean boyband ^^ is Super Junior
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2005–2006: The Super Junior project
Super Junior 05 debuted on SBS’s music program Popular Songs on Nov 6th 2005, performing their first single, “TWINS (Knock Out).” A digital single with “TWINS (Knock Out)”, “You are the one”, and three additional tracks were released online on Nov 8th. A physical CD single was scheduled to be released the following week but a more complete album, SuperJunior05 (TWINS), was released on December 6th 2005 instead. Their debut album sold 28,536 copies in the first month of release and debuted at #3 in the monthly chart of Dec 2005. In that same month, they released “Show Me Your Love,” a collaboration single with TVXQ. “Show Me Your Love” became the best-selling record of Dec 2005, selling 49,945 copies that month.
In Feb 2006, Super Junior 05 began performances for “Miracle”, the second promotional single from their debut album. “Miracle” was the group’s first single to peak #1 in online music charts of South Korea as well as the music charts of Thailand, drawing interest from international markets. As promotions for “Miracle” came to an end, SM Entertainment began selecting new members for Super Junior’s second line-up project, Super Junior 06. The company even prepared a list of chosen members that were to graduate from the group. However, no members were taken out and a thirteenth member was added instead in May 2006. The line-up project has been abandoned since then, and the group became known as just Super Junior, without the suffix “05″.

2006–2007: Breakthrough success
On May 23rd 2006, SM Entertainment revealed the thirteenth member Kyuhyun, who was discovered through a singing competition in 2005. They released their single “U” online for free download on May 25th 2006 in their official website. “U” had over 400 thousand downloads within five hours of release and it ultimately exceeded 1.7 million downloads, crashing the server. The physical single of “U” with a total of three tracks was released on June 6th 2006, eventually selling over 81,000 units. The single became one of Korea’s most popular songs of the year, yielding #1 spots for five consecutive weeks on two of Korea’s top music programs. By the end of the year, Super Junior collected over seven awards in five of South Korea’s top music award ceremonies, winning the title as Best New Group of 2006.
Super Junior’s first sub-unit, the ballad-singing trio Super Junior-K.R.Y., debuted on Nov 5th 2006 with a performance of Hyena theme song “The One I Love” on KBS music program Music Bank. A second sub-unit arrived in February 2007 called Super Junior-T. The trot-singing group released their first single “Rokkugo” in Feb 23rd 2007 and made a debut performance on Popular Songs two days later.
Super Junior’s second official album was intended for a late 2006 release, but due to several accidental setbacks, Don’t Don was not released until Sep 20th 2007. Within the first three days of release, offline album sales for Don’t Don passed the 11,000 unit mark, debuting as #1 in all available offline charts. It finished the September monthly album sales as #1. 60,000 units were shipped by the first week of release and additional copies were printed. Although Don’t Don received rather bland reviews from critics, the album sold more than 160,000 copies by the end of the year, becoming the second best-selling record of 2007. The album also found success in Taiwan; it broke the record for being the highest ranked Korean album on the G-music Combo Billboard Chart, surpassing the albums of TVXQ and Shinhwa. Super Junior’s album also ranked above Taiwanese boy band K One, whose album debuted at #6.
Supported by the release of Don’t Don, Super Junior was nominated in seven separate categories at the 2007 M.Net/KM Music Festival that was held on Nov 17th 2007. Super Junior won three of those categories including “Netizen Choice Award” and “Mobile Popularity”, being the biggest winner of the night. The group also won “Best Artist of the Year” (Daesang), termed by many as the highest recognition of the ceremony. Super Junior collected two more awards on Dec 14th 2007 at the 2007 Golden Disk Awards. Although defeated by SG Wannabe in winning the “Daesang”, Super Junior won a “Bonsang” and the “TPL Anycall Popularity Award”, which were reported as expected wins for the group by the media after the success of Don’t Don.

2008–2009: Beyond Korea
On Oct 2nd 2007, SM Entertainment announced a third Super Junior sub-unit Super Junior-M, a subgroup designated for the Chinese market. While the creation of the subgroup created a brief controversy between the fans and the management, Super Junior-M became a phenomenal success in China, having the opportunity to have two sold-out concerts in Hong Kong, top weekly ratings with their appearance on variety programs, and becoming the idol group with the most endorsement contracts in China.With the absence of almost half of the members in Korea, a fourth Super Junior sub-unit was created that same year to prevent Super Junior from disappearing in the Korean music industry. With five members from Super Junior-T and Yesung, they formed the subgroup, Super Junior-Happy. Super Junior-Happy released the EP Cooking? Cooking! on June 5th 2008, and promotions ended on Sep 7th, lasting for four months. In Nov 2008, Super Junior-T returned, this time as a singing group in Japan, called SuperJunior-TxMoeyan; this group added Moeyan, a famous two-woman comedy group in Japan. “ROCK&GO”, a Japanese-language version of “Rokuko”, debuted at #19 on the Oricon Daily Charts and jumped to #2 three days later.
Super Junior’s first major tour, Super Show, commenced on Feb 22nd 2008 in Seoul. The tour covered three countries and had shows on six different cities, including Bangkok, Shanghai, and Beijing. From July 8th to July 9th 2008, Super Junior held their first fan meeting in Japan, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, as a celebration for the grand opening of their official Japanese Homepage, which was launched on April 1th 2008. 12,000 tickets to the fanmeeting were all sold out in several days. The group released a compiled Japan single the following day, entitled “U/TWINS”, which includes the Japanese version of “U” in the limited release, to complement the event. The single peaked at #4 on Japan’s Oricon Daily Chart in its first day of release, and dropped down to only four places in its second. The single broke a new record for being the first Korean single to have made within top 10 on Japan’s Oricon Weekly Chart. On Aug 2nf 2008, Super Junior expanded their routes to Genting Highlands, Malaysia, being one of the top guest performers at the MTV Asia Awards 2008 along with other international performing artists such as OneRepublic and the Jabbawockeez. They are the third SM artist to win Favorite Artist Korea at the MTV Asia Awards after Kangta and BoA, and the second musical group to win the award after JTL in 2008.
Super Junior’s third album, Sorry, Sorry, was released on March 12th 2009 with acclaimed reviews. The title single of the album, “Sorry, Sorry” was digitally released on Mar 9th 2009. In less than a week after preorders were announced, over 150,000 copies were pre-ordered. Sorry, Sorry was their first album to debut at #1 on the Hanteo Charts, and it sold over 29,000 copies the first day, defeating Seo Taiji’s record of 25,000. Promotions for the album started March 13 with the performance of “Sorry, Sorry” and “Why I Like You” on Music Bank. Two weeks later, “Sorry, Sorry” became the number one song of the week on the same program. During the group’s performance on music program Popular Songs on March 15, ratings went up to as high as 14%, the highest in recent years. From March to May, “Sorry, Sorry” collected a total of ten #1 awards with consecutive wins in Korea, having the single becoming a national and international success. After only a month of release, the album became South Korea’s best-selling album of 2009. Sorry, Sorry was also a critically and commercially successful hit in other Asian countries, opting the group to become the only overseas representative for the second time at Taiwan’s annual Golden Melody Awards. Sorry, Sorry was a best-selling Korean-language album in Taiwan, Thailand, China, and the Philippines, in which the latter listed the album to be the first K-pop album to reach #1 in music charts from the country. Super Junior won three awards in the 1st MNET Asian Music Awards – Overseas Viewers Award, Mobile Popularity Award and CGV Popularity Award despite not attending. Super Junior’s Sorry, Sorry won Daesang at the 2009 Golden Disk Awards.
On Dec 10th 2009, a music video called Sorry, Sorry – Answer was released through SM Entertainment’s YouTube page.
Also, they released a single, titled “S.E.O.U.L.” with the group’s own Kyuhyun, Donghae, Siwon, Leeteuk, Ryeowook, Sungmin, as well as some of SNSD members; Seohyun, Sunny, Sooyoung, Taeyeon and Jessica.

2010
Continuing Super Show 2 Tour and Fourth Studio Album
Super Junior’s Asian Tour: Super Show 2 is planned to come to four more cities; Beijing, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila. In Jan 2010, members Leeteuk, Shindong, Siwon, Eunhyuk and Donghae traveled to Thailand to make an appearance on KPN Awards and also confirmed that Super Junior would be releasing a fourth album very soon.
They held a concert in Beijing in Jan 23. But only 10 members attended; Han Geng, Kangin and Kibum were all absent in the event. Hankyung was absent due to his ongoing lawsuit with SM Entertainment. His lawyer had advised him not to attend any activities prepared by SM in the mean time. Kangin was absent due to his DUI accident. Kibum was absent because he was busy with his solo projects. It was also noted that Heechul cried sometime in this concert. Fans were calling for Hankyung, Kangin, and Kibum, hoping they’d be there.
When Ryeowook was a guest on Kiss The Radio, he mentioned that they are currently recording their 4th album.

April 19 car accident
On Apr 19th 2007, Kyuhyun, who was sitting behind the driver’s seat when the accident occurred, was severely injured with a fractured hip, pneumothorax from broken ribs, and deep scratches and bruises. Kyuhyun was slipping in and out of consciousness for the next few days after the accident occurred. Besides Kyuhyun, Leeteuk, Eunhyuk, Shindong, and two of their managers were also in the accident. The accident occurred when they were commuting back to their apartment after Kiss the Radio (SuKiRa) in Kangta’s van and not their own. Leeteuk had severe scratches on his back and face, and had to receive stitches. He was released later on July 5yh 2007, but didn’t fully recover until Feb 2008. The other two, Eunhyuk and Shindong, suffered only minor injuries.

Heechul’s car accident
On Aug 10th 2006, Heechul suffered a major injury from a car accident that occurred when he was heading back from Mopko to Seoul, where he was attending the funeral of Donghae’s father. It occurred when the tires malfunctioned while he was attempting to switch lanes. He fractured his left leg in five places including his femur, knee, and ankle which required a 6-hour surgery and he also sustained several other injuries. He was advised to stop all activities for a period of twelve weeks. He was released from the hospital on Sep 13th 2006 and returned to the hospital for surgery to remove some of the iron rods in his leg on Oct 10th 2006. He returned to work in late October to film the final three episodes of the MBC youth sitcom Rainbow Romance while still in a cast and wheel chair. It wasn’t until late December when Heechul officially returned to individual activities such as variety show appearances and hosting appearances. He made his comeback on Nov 25th at the MKMF Awards. The remaining rods were removed in 2008.

Musical style
As a whole, Super Junior has released three studio albums and one physical single, including occasional contributions to drama soundtracks. They are acclaimed for their vocal harmonization and unison as each member contributes a different voice range in their music. Leeteuk, Heechul, Hankyung, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, and Ryeowook are all tenors. Yesung, Kangin, and Siwon are baritones. Shindong, Kibum, and Kyuhyun sing in bass.Some members are credited for their vocal belting techniques, notably Yesung.Despite significant vocal contributions by each member, Yesung, Sungmin, Ryeowook, and Kyuhyun are labeled as the group’s lead vocalists. Shindong, Eunhyuk, and Kibum are the group’s main rappers, with Heechul and Donghae consistently rapping as the supporting vocals. Eunhyuk also regularly contributes in writing the group’s rap music.
Super Junior’s music mainly fall into the category of mainstream Korean pop. Songs of this genre are usually mixed with different branches of electronic instruments, with heavy emphasis on urban contemporary, dance pop, and rap. Generic pop melodies were used more in SuperJunior05 (TWINS), while R&B and sulty electronica beats were used more in Sorry, Sorry.
Super Junior works closely with Young Jin Yoo, who has produced and arranged most of the group’s promotional singles since debut. Yoo’s also known for creating the renowned SMP style, a genre that includes a balanced infusion of rock, R&B, and rap, with complementing musical elements such as the electric guitar, bass, and other different percussion instruments. Super Junior has prominently used this SMP style in Don’t Don.
Super Junior has covered quite a few song in their albums. Their debut single “TWINS (Knock Out)” is a cover of Triple Eight’s “Knockout,” which was released in 2003. While the musical style is mostly maintained as the original, “TWINS (Knock Out)” touches closer to rap rock, with quicker rap and more emphasis on the bass instruments. In most of their covers, the original titles are kept. Examples include Cape’s “L.O.V.E” and Exile’s “Believe.” However, most of these covers are re-arranged to different accompaniments, such as H.O.T’s “Full of Happiness”.

Dance style
Super Junior are known for doing performances that are heavily centered around their choreography, and are acclaimed for their highly sychronized dances. The group’s pre-debut was a hip hop dance performance and they have also joined B-boy battles and performances throughout their career.
Their dance styles are widely termed as street dancing, with a majority of their choreography containing hip hop dance moves such as popping, waving, sliding, and liquid dancing. Most of their songs usually contain a music bridge where one to six members from the group do a dance performance. Han Geng, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, and Donghae are reportedly the most skilled dancers of the group, where the five of them are usually seen leading group dances and also performing solos. Dances in the form of martial arts are widely used in their dance routines as both Han Geng and Sungmin are professionally trained in that area. Some of the members also participate in creating their dance choreography, such as Shindong who was the main choreographer for “U” and for most of the group’s other dance sequences. The members worked together to create the dance choreography for “Don’t Don” and “Marry U”, both promotional singles for the group’s second album.

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Super Junior are best known to be a youthful, energetic, and humorous group.Because of that,they often become guest artist on shows as mood maker. The group has also remarked that having good teamwork is one of the key reasons to their success. The bonding and friendship between members have been apparent since before the group’s debut, when SM arranged all of them to live in one apartment. Heechul has mentioned several times that if it wasn’t for his members, he would have left Super Junior to pursue a dedicated acting career.
Musically, Super Junior are known for having many different fabricated images with each new release. Super Junior’s debut image leaned softly towards a rock appearance to complement the rap/rock “TWINS (Knock Out).” For “Miracle,” many of the members displayed a youthful and cute image with their lighter hair color and cute dance style. The group soon transitioned to a more mature, preppy style with “U”, where the members changed their hair to a darker color and wore darker, more flamboyant outfits. For the release of Don’t Don, the group headed for an edgy transformation. Their outfits became more revealing and many members bleached their hair, wore dark makeup, and had temporary tattoos. Kangin had a hairstyle that was a buzz cut with scratched designs, Leeteuk’s and Sungmin’s hair were bleached blond and half shaved, while Heechul, Hankyung, and Kyuhyun sported with bright-colored hairstyles, which were all inspired by punk fashion and modifications of hip hop fashion. With their comeback in early 2009, the 13 guys showed the transformation from boys to men. To match the bouncy beats of Sorry, Sorry,they donned stylish and fitted suits with accessories such as: ties, bows, aviators, and leather gloves. Not only did Super Junior return with their “own fashion”, they sported hairstyles of natural colors and short-cuts to give off a fresh look. For the It’s You promotions, they leaned toward a more casual, but a clean and manly look.

Criticism
Super Junior has been criticized in the past for lip-synching and lack of vocal skills specifically for shaky pitch and heavy breathing. The criticisms worsened in July 2006 when they lipsynched on Show! Music Core of MBC, a show that guarantees all live performances. Though fans have defended them saying that Heechul was ill, their critics do not accept this explanation. They argue that since the band contains thirteen members, one singer should not necessitate lipsynching by the entire group. Despite this, they have still remained popular through their large fan base and their album sales have been strong. To lighten the criticism, Super Junior’s first performance of “Don’t Don,” the lead single off the group’s second album, was live and not lipsynched. Out of the thirty-six songs that were performed at the group’s first live concert tour, Super Show, only six songs were lipsynched, a feat that earned positive reviews. Some members have also been performing a cappella versions of their songs.

Profiles

Leeteuk (Park Jungsu)
Birthday : 7/3/83
Sibling : 1 elder sister (Park Inyoung)
Position : Leader, sub-vocal
School : Baekjae Junior College (Graduate)
Height : 175 cm (5′9)
Religion : Christian
Nicknames : Angel Without Wings, Teuki Teuki Leeteuki, Angel Teuk, Lida Park, Peter Pan
Ideal Girl : Pretty, outgoing girl (163cm would be the ideal height) with thin ankles and wrists.

Heechul (Kim Heechul)
Birthday : 7/10/83
Sibling : 1 elder sister (Kim Heejin)
Position : Sub leader, rapper, sub vocal
School : Sangji Univ. (Graduate)
Height : 179 cm (6ft)
Religion : Christiant
Nicknames : Heenim,Cinderella, Sachawon, Kim Cherry
Ideal Girl : Single-eyelided girl with pretty neck who looks good in mini skirts.

Hankyung (Han Geng)
Birthday : 2/9/84
Sibilings : none
Position : Sub-vocal, Lead Dancer
School : Beijing Central Ethnical Univ. (Graduate)
Height : 181 cm (6ft)
Religion : Atheist
Nicknames : Eagle, The Miracle of 1.3 Million, Angel of Heilung Jiang
Ideal Girl : Cute girl who respects his parents and loves him for who he is

Yesung (Kim Jongwoon)
Birthday : 8/24/84
Sibling : 1 younger brother (Kim Jongjin)
Position : Lead vocal
School : Chungwoon Univ. (Graduate)
Height : 178 cm (5′11)
Religion : Catholic
Nicknames : Cloud, Artistic Vocal Cords, Singing Yesung, Cheonan Uljjang
Ideal Girl : Moon Geungyoung

Kangin (Kim Youngwoon)
Birthday : 1/17/85
Sibling : none
Position : Sub vocal
School : Kyunghee Cyber Univ. Major: Cultural Arts Management (Graduate)
Height : 180 cm (5′11)
Religion : Christian
Nicknames : Bear Kangin,Strength Kangin, raccoon, Korea No.1 Handsome Guy, The Real Leader
Ideal Girl : Rich, pretty girl with pretty feet and long straight hair

Shindong (Shin Donghee)
Birthday : 9/28/85
Sibling : none
Position : Rapper, Lead Dancer
School : Baekjae Junior College. Major: Dance
Height : 180 cm (5′11)
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Dolpan Ogyupsal
Ideal Girl : Cute, short girl

Sungmin (Lee Sungmin)
Birthday : 1/1/86
Sibling : 1 younger brother (Lee Sungjin)
Position : Main vocal, Lead Dancer
School : Myungji Univ. Major: Film Musical
Height : 176 cm (5′9)
Religion : Christian
Nicknames : Pumpkin Guy, Sungmin Who’s Too Cute for Us
Ideal Girl : Cute, short, nice girl

Eunhyuk (Lee Hyukjae)
Birthday : 4/4/86
Sibling : 1 elder sister (Lee Sora)
Position : Main Dancer, Rapper
School : Paichai Univ.
Height : 178 cm (5′10)
Religion : Heretical Christian
Nicknames : Monkey, Gem Adonis, Little Mermaid, cockroach, Hallyu Star, Hyojjae, Hyukgoo
Ideal Girl : Pale, cute, short girl

Donghae (Lee Donghae)
Birthday : 10/15/86
Sibling : 1 elder brother (Lee Donghwa)
Position : Rapper, sub vocal, Lead Dancer
School : Myungji Univ. Major: Performance Arts
Height : 177 cm (5′10)
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Fish, Hweh, Ryeowook’s Best Fan, Bada’s Dad, East Sea(Donghae means East Sea(Sea of Japan) in Korean), Mokpo Uljjang
Ideal Girl : Motherly girl with pretty collarbones

Siwon (Choi Siwon)
Birthday : 2/10/87
Sibling : 1 younger sister (Choi Jiwon)
School : Inha Univ. Major: Physical education
Height : 185 cm (6′2)
Position : Sub vocal
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Simba, The Lord’s #1 Fan, bodyguard, gentleman, horse
Ideal Girl : Christian Girl with wavy hair and abs

Ryeowook (Kim Ryeowook)
Birthday : 6/21/87
Siblings : none
School : Inha Univ. Major: Theater Arts
Height : 175 cm (5′8)
Position : Main vocal
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Ryeonggoo, Eternal Maknae, Rank #1, Ryeowook On Top, Used-to-be Maknae
Ideal Girl : Short girl who can sing

Kibum (Kim Kibum)
Birthday : 8/21/87
Sibling : 1 younger sister (Kim Saehee)
Height : 180 cm (5′11)
Position : Rapper
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Snow White, The Natural One
Ideal Girl : Han Gain

Kyuhyun (Cho Kyuhyun)
Birthday : 2/3/88
Sibling : 1 elder sister (Cho Ara)
Position : Main vocal
School : Kyunghee Univ. Major: Post Modern Music
Height : 180 cm (5′11)
Religion : Christian
Nickname : Choding, Maknae On Top, Micky’s Best Fan, Lord Kyu, Sulky Kyu, Excellent Plastic Surgery Result Kyu, Porn Kyu, Fit-In Kyu, Chic Kyu, Alien, Jesus Kyu, Dorm Kyu, Sexy Kyu, Baby Kyu, Shy Kyu, ELF Kyu, Green Kyu, Terror Kyu, Rotten Smile Kyu, Guinness Kyu, Voice Kyu, Dark Kyu, Model Kyu, Miracle Kyu, Doll Kyu, S Line Kyu, Basic Instinct Kyu, Game Kyu, etc
Ideal Girl : Pretty, Christian, like Kim Taehee.

and this is pictures when they in chiLdhood \^o^/
KYOWIEYOOOOOO………….

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1 of my favorite song……………

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their 1st song when they 12 :